Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Security Engineer Journey

Introduction

Welcome to Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Security Engineer Journey

Configuring Access Within a Cloud Solution Environment

Learn how to set up the Organization, Folder, and Project hierarchy. Explore Organization policies and defining service accounts, groups, and custom IAM roles and binding custom or predefined roles to users, groups, and service accounts.

Configuring Network Security

Learn how to define VPC architecture for the Organization to ensure appropriate resource isolation, firewall rules to control/restrict traffic flow into and out of these VPCs, and private IP connectivity to resources in VPCs.

Ensuring Data Protection

Learn how to define DLP and VPC service controls process for the Organization as well as the Encryption and key management scheme.

Managing Operations in a Cloud Environment

Learn about automating Google Cloud security features into the organizational CICD flow and utilizing Logging and Monitoring for security forensics and alerting.

Ensuring Compliance

Explore organizational security design considerations to satisfy specific compliance/regulatory requirements (SOC2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA).

Your Next Steps

Course review and next steps in your PCSE Journey.

• Describe the domains covered on the Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certification exam.
• Identify gaps in your knowledge and skills for each domain and create a study plan.